Call of Duty: Black Ops, One Month Later

I’ve been playing Treyarch’s Call of Duty: Black Ops since its release on November 9th of this year. I’ve greatly enjoyed the time that I’ve invested in the game and I honestly don’t think that I’ll be playing any other game for a very long time. I think that Black Ops is polished enough to keep me busy for the next few months. The game feels and plays great and obviously, millions of other people feel the same way, the sales record of the game can attest to this.

One month later, the game is still selling like hot cakes. There really seems to be no immediate drop off in demand yet. The game raked in nearly $650 million in five day sales, this completely smashes the previous record set by Modern Warfare 2 at $550 million. The game is nearing 20 million copies sold, analysts expect the game to hit this figure by the time January comes along. Though the game is selling quickly currently, I believe that this will die out fairly soon, sometime after January most likely as most consumers will have the game by then.

$650 million in five days.